Spring has arrived and that means – hurrah! – our first visitors have arrived. We welcomed two very old (as in long-standing!) friends last week. We’ve had many experiences with them – they were our neighbours in West Didsbury, we went to their wedding in Greece and have shared many parties and late, late nights […]
Posts tagged holiday
Our Didsbury Holiday
Previous years have seen us getting away from West Didsbury and largely exploring Italy, Spain and Greece, with some nice city breaks in between. This year – summer 2017 – has seen us doing a very different kind of a holiday. Firstly, it was a very strange feeling booking outward flights TO Manchester from Pula […]
Krk Island, Croatia
One of the the things that excites us massively about now living in northern Croatia, is our proximity to so far undiscovered islands, very close to home. Greece has alway been our favoured destination of island exploration and we’ve never really given the Croatian islands a second thought. Until now… We’ve extensively explored the Istrian […]
Discovering Istria
We’ve got our first guests staying with us at the moment, friends from West Didsbury. It’s been brilliant to have people we know here and to be able to communicate, once again, without having to speak in Esperanto. In fact, being able to speak without thinking. Without having to compute in your head what might […]
A funky find in Rimini…
DuoMo Hotel, Via g. Bruno 28, 47921 Rimini, Italy This hotel was another amazing find. We booked one night online, trusting our gut instinct and wow! Upon arrival we immediately booked a second night as we knew this was going to be something very special. “What would please Me Most in a hotel is not […]
Costa Smeralda
Having heard lots of people rave about this north eastern Sardinian coastline, we thought that a slight detour was definitely in order. We’d been staying at an agriturismo in the Saltara region and were heading to a second, a little further south (but still deep in northern hills) & the coastline to the east was […]
Marrakech Express
For anyone who’s not been to Marrakech, you need to know that everything you’ve probably ever heard is true. It is hot (even in early Janaury when we were there). It’s dusty and dirty. It’s a city of vibrant colours, aromatic aromas, constant hustle and bustle. There’s incredible wealth and the most appalling poverty. In […]
Dreaming of Sardinia…
…and a hotel situated in the south west corner of the island. Hotel le Dune, in Piscinas. As the “Hip Hotels Italy” says, “Officially, Sardinia is a part of Italy; culturally, it’s another world…” And, this is what Hotel le Dune seems to be. Part of another world. Located in an area that was once […]